Bag-holder.



B A G H 0 L D E R (Application med cet. 1e, 1900.

(Na Model.)

wir como UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMILY DINSMORE, OF STEUBENVILLE, OHIO.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 673,117, dated April 30, 1901.

pplication iiled October 16, 1900. Serial No. 33,286. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it noa/y concern:

Beit known that I, EMILY DINsMoRE, acitizen of the United States, residing at Steubenville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improven men ts in Bag-Holders, of which the following is a specification. The invention relates to new and useful improvements in bag-holders especially adapted forA holding fruit-strainers; and its primary object is to provide a device of simple constructionwhich may be readily attached to the top of a kettle or other similar receptacle and which serves to support a strainer Within said receptacle.

The invention also consists in so constructing the holder that the same may be folded and suspended in such position when it is desired to permit the contents of the bag to drip therefrom.

The invention also consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of part-s, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, showing the preferred form of my invention, and in Which- Figure lis a perspective view of the device opened. Fig. 2 is an elevation thereof in folded position.

In the drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

l 1 are similar substantially semicircular sections, each of which is provided at its ends with ears 2, the ears of the adjacent ends being adapted to receive pivot-pins 3, thereby forming hinges. From the inner face of each section project hooks 4, adapted to engage the upper edge of a bag or other suitable strainer. Hooks 5,formed, preferably, of wire bent upward from each section and thence downward to points therebelow, are provided and are adapted to receive the edge ofa kettle or other receptacle and retain the holder in position thereon. Loops or eyes 6 extend laterally from each section l at points equidistant from the hinges and are adapted to engage a hook or other means, and thereby permit the device to be suspended in folded position.

When it is desired to strain fruit or other substance, the bag or strainer is suspended from the hooks 4 within the holder. The hooks 5 are then placed over the upper edge of the kettle or other receptacle into which the substance is to be strained, and the device is ready for use. When it is desired to drip the contents, it is merely necessary to fold the sections l together, and both of the eyes or loops 6 can then be suspended from a hook or nail arranged at a suitable point.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and advantages of my irnproved bag-holder will be readily apparent without requiring an extended explanation.

It will be seen that the device is simple of construction, that said construction permits of its manufacture at small cost, and that it is exceedingly well adapted for the purpose for which it is designed, and it will of course loe understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. A bag-holder comprising similar semicircular sections hinged together, means for securing a strainer within said sections, hooks arranged at the outer edge of each section and adapted to engage the edge of a receptacle, and an eye extending from each section.

2. A bag-holder comprising similar semicircular sections hinged together at their adjacent ends, hooks within each section adapted to engage a strainer, hooks arranged upon the outer edge of each section and adapted to engage the walls of a receptacle, and eyes eX- tending from the outer edge of each section at points equidistant from the hinges.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. EMILY DINSMORE.

Witnesses:

OHALMERS C. WHITE, DAvI-D M. GRUBER. 

